Yes indeed Varche, I have been watching the BBC coverage of yesterday and today and trying to take in all the veterans accounts of the action. It is bloody marvellous, and I have frequently been in tears over what has been recalled.
I have studied the D-Day landings for years, and remember what my father told me of the day as he was on board
HMS Ajax, a light cruiser, as she bombarded the German positions. But over the last 24 hours we have been absolutely blessed by the veterans wonderful first witness, primary evidence, accounts that are so precious and, naturally, are time limited. To read other historians research and accounts of the build up and the day itself is one thing, but to hear the recollections of men, and women, actually there, or elsewhere but involved in the proceedings, is something that is priceless.
I really hope as many of the younger generations have been listening and taking notes, even recording all that is being said. It is their, and our, last chance to hear so many veterans together talking so freely, together, about what they experienced.
God bless them all, and may we never forget. WE salute them!
I am no again dissolving in tears as what they have said about those that fell on the day and after, so often just 17,18 or so years of age , flashes across the brain............ even the likes of a 16 year old boy shot by the Germans for assisting the French resistance,:'(